Honeybee Wallpaper
Design date 1881
Trimmed width: 20 1/2"
Repeat: 24" drop match
Roll size: 6 yards long,
covering approximately 35 sq. ft.
Price per roll: $150.00
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Honeybee Wallpaper Design date 1881 Trimmed width: 20 1/2" Repeat: 24" drop match Roll size: 6 yards long, covering approximately 35 sq. ft. Price per roll: $150.00
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| Honeybee Wallpaper - Ionia Gold colorway | Honeybee Wall & Frieze - Ionia Gold colorway |
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Honeybee Frieze Design date 1881 Trimmed height: 19" Repeat: 20" Price per roll: $28.00 per yard |
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Candace Wheeler won distinction in the early 1880s with her Honeybee wallpaper design, winning first place in a national design competition. An engraving of this design was featured in Clarence Cook's epistle of the Aesthetic Movement, "What Shall We Do With Our Walls". |
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Candace Wheeler portrait, c.1910,
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 John Burrows' friend and colleague, Robert Furhoff, shared his discovery of a surviving room of Wheeler's Honeybee wallpaper in the small central Michigan town of Ionia. This was a significant find: previously no full repeat of the wall pattern or frieze was known to survive. Before long, John made his way to the Hall-Fowler Memorial Library in Ionia, a splendid sandstone Italianate villa, and he spent a week on a ladder painstakingly tracing the wall and frieze designs and taking color notations. The result is the most popular roomset offered by Burrows Studio.The industrious honeybee is a fitting symbol of Candace Wheeler's impressive career. Mrs. Wheeler began her working life by establishing women's aid and needlework societies in New York in the 1870s. Her work helping indigent women reflects the social commitment of early followers of the Arts & Crafts movement.  During the early 1880s Candace Wheeler worked in an artistic design partnership with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Lockwood de Forest and Samuel Colman. Their firm decorated the White House state rooms for President Chester Alan Arthur and worked for other noteworthy clients. Their interior design work is considered a high point of the Aesthetic Movement in America. An historic photograph taken c.1890 documents Honeybee wall hung as a wide frieze in the First Lady's Dressing Room, the NW corner room of the family quarters in the White House.Candace Wheeler directed her own design business, Associated Artists, with a group of women designers and crafts workers. A major project was the development of a mountaintop resort property in the Catskills called Onteora. Her artist-daughter Dora Wheeler Keith and architect-son Dunham Wheeler worked with her during her later career.  A crowning achievement to Mrs. Wheeler's career was her selection to oversee the interior design of the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893. Candace Wheeler is known as a pioneer among women in the field of interior design and is regarded as a significant roll model for the Women's Movement.Mrs. Wheeler also edited and wrote books on needlework and interior design, including Household Art (1893) and Principles of Interior Decoration (1903). |
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| Honeybee Wallpaper Alcove, Aesthetic Gallery | Art of the Americas Wing, MFA, Boston |
For more wallpaper patterns, please also see:
C.F.A. Voysey Wallpaper and Fabric
and
Candace Wheeler Fabric and Wallpaper.
J.R.
Burrows & Company
